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Watershed: Literary Journal
Details:http://www.csuchico.edu/engl/wshed/guidelines.html
Watershed is a magazine of our environment and culture. By investigating the intersections between man and the environment, we address the question: "What is natural?" Informed by a need for cultural change, its pages provide a forum for provocative, creative and critical work that engage issues pertinent to the natural world in which we live.
Submission Deadlines--
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The 2006
Mid-American Review
Details:http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/
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1st Prize, each genre: $1000 + Publication
Four Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication
Guidelines
There is a $10 entry fee (check or money order, made out to Mid-American Review) for each set of three poems, or each story/essay up to 6,000 words. These contests are for previously unpublished work only. Submissions will not be returned; send SASE for early results (~late December, 2005). Pages need not be left anonymous. All participants will receive MAR v. XXVI, no. 2, where the winners will be published. Contests are open to all writers not associated, past or present, with the judges or MAR. The judges' decisions are final.
Send entries to
Contests
Mid-American Review
Department of English, Box W
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green OH 43403
The postmark deadline for each contest is October 1, 2006.
Call for Submissions: Tarpaulin Sky
Details:
Poetry / Prose / Transgenre work: Submissions are accepted throughout the year.
DADDY’S GIRL – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Details and online entry,
visit
www.7adinkras.com/daddysgirl.htm.
7 Adinkras Media Productions is looking for stories of love and admiration,
regret and redemption, healing and searching from women in the Southeastern U.S.
for
anthology and companion documentary.
Tell us how your relationship with your father, not
necessarily biological, has impacted your life --
particularly your past and current romantic
relationships or your relationship with men in
general. True, original work considered from beginning
and experienced women writers from the Southeastern
U.S. Diversity welcomed and encouraged.
Length: 2,500 words or less.
Deadline: September 15, 2005.
Keen Publications, Inc. is seeking stories
Seeks stories
of aggressive, creative women who made the first move to get the man of their dreams for a book to be published in 2006. We are paying $20 for each story we accept that explains how you did something proactive, unique and/or outrageous to grab your tiger. You may choose to remain anonymous, or we will give you credit in the book for your successful story--whichever you prefer. Either way you will be paid if your submission is published.
We need true stories of what you did/said/planned, etc. to get your guy. That first move could be anything: Perhaps you concocted a clever ruse. Maybe you grabbed that tiger by a "tale." If the first move was yours, and it resulted in success for you, we want to hear about it. Please indicate if your initiative resulted in marriage or committed arrangement.
The most unique and inspired tales will be accepted for publication. Please note that it doesn't have to be your story; you may submit the story of any female you know who brazenly took the initiative--it could be your best friend, aunt, etc., if it complies with the above.
E-mail your submissions to KeenPublications@aol.com. Please put GRAB THAT TIGER in the Subject line. Put your story in the body of the e-mail (no attachments, please) and single space it. Please stay within the 750 word maximum. Good luck!
Keen Publications, Inc.
is the publisher of Keen on New York Top-Rated Services, 2004 Ed., a successful, survey-based consumer book, which was sold in Barnes & Noble and other fine stores, and online, last year.
Moving Across Water: art and writing by Asian American women
Details:
http://www.aawaa.net/anthology.htmlPlease see for submission guidelines and details at our website.
Asian American women invited to submit their art or writing by August 15th.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Rack: Women Write about Their Breasts
From Venus de Milo’s chiseled cleavage to Janet Jackson’s notorious SuperBowl
wardrobe malfunction,
women’s breasts have long served as catalysts for cultural criticism, wonder,
and infatuation. In a
nation where a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes and
teenage girls receive
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breast augmentations as graduation gifts from their
parents, it is impossible not to wonder -- How do women truly feel about their
breasts? Rack: Women Write about Their Breasts will aim to
explore this question by going right to the source and sharing the stories of
women who have had
extraordinary and ordinary experiences with their bust-lines. In order to
complete this unique
anthology, the editor is seeking well-crafted personal essays on a wide range of
breast-related experiences and issues. Each unique non-fiction piece in this
anthology should shed its own light on the moving, confusing, and often
hilarious experience of having breasts; diverse and unique perspectives are
encouraged. Submissions should be strong, developed, first-person accounts that
don’t tell your breasts’ entire life story, but instead highlight a specific
moment, experience, or process that made a significant impact on your life.
Thematically, essays should address the question -- In a world of plastic
surgery, piercing, and porn stars, how do we, as women, learn to love, lose, and
eventually accept our breasts?
Some likely topics include:
Getting nipples pierced/other breast-related body modification
Accounts of breast implants (I love them, I hate them, implant-related
illnesses, etc.)
Experiences of modern-day moms (pumping,breast-feeding, what your mother never
told you but
you were forced to learn on your own)
Experiences with mastectomy
Growing up flat-chested, with uneven breasts, or with weird nipples
Binding breasts for gender purposes
Transitioning from a breast-friendly culture to American culture
Breasts and sex work
Shopping for a first bra
Editor: Abby Schwartz lives in San Diego, where she is a regular columnist for
the Gay & Lesbian Times and the host of Siren Open Mic for Women, a
popularmonthly performance series. She comes from a long lineof busty Jewish
women, and proudly sports a 36-D.
Length: 3,000-5,000 wordsFormat: Essays must be typed, double-spaced, and
paginated. Please include your address, phone number,email address, and a short
bio on the last page.
Essays will not be returned.
Submitting: Mail the essay to:
Abby Schwartz
P.O. Box 620720
San Diego, CA 92162-0720
Payment: Copy of anthology upon publication.
Reply: Replies will be conducted via email, unless an
SASE is enclosed and noted as preferred
Deadline: November 1, 2005
Australian Women: The Scarlet
Stilletto Wants Your Crime
and Mystery Short Stories
Details:
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sincoz/
Sisters! Ready your poison pens and blood red ink! The Scarlet Stilletto Awards
are on the prowl for the best in female crime writing once again. The Scarlet
Stilletto's, an initiative of leading feminist crime fiction organization
Sisters in Crime, offer $,2500 for the best crime and mystery short stories
authored by Australian women - the most lucrative prize pool for crime-writing
from either gender. More at the website.
Deadline: August 31, 2005.
Call for Canadian Manuscripts
All entries must be original
and unpublished works. Entries must be written in English or French. All
entries must fall within one of the following categories and be within the
specified word count:
- Short Story (2000 - 2500 words)*
- Creative nonfiction (2000 - 2500 words)*
- Poetry (1500 -
2500 words)*
*Texts above or below the specified word count are automatically disqualified.
Deadline: November 1, 2005.
New Writing about Fly Fishing: Fishing the Angles
As fly fishing drifts downstream into the 21st century, anglers are faced
with over-pressured streams and lakes, declining water quality, and public
indifference. In spite of this, we fish. Why? What do we get out of it?
This proposed collection, Fishing the Angles: New Writing about Fly Fishing, is
looking for works that capture the meaning and magic (or the lack of meaning
and magic) of this most literary of Outdoor Sports. Tell us show us what fly
fishing means and how it works.
Fishing the Angles seeks:
Fiction
Poetry
Memoir
Creative Non-Fiction
Prose works should be less than 5000 words. Email submissions are
preferred, as attachments in .rft format or pasted into the body of the
email.
Send submissions to: fly-angle@tamu.edu
Purists can mail hardcopies of their work to:
Lowell Mick White
Department of English
MS 4227
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-4227
Please include a brief bio with your submission.
Submission deadline is October 9, 2005.
